Elaine Pagels

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1.		The Gnostic Gospels from Vintage Price: $10.40 Customer Review: The Gnostic Gospels is a scholastic look at some of the forces that threatened to split the early Christian Church. The battle, as portrayed by Pagels, was between Orthodoxy and Gnosticism. Her argument is based on ancient texts discovered in 1945 in Egypt. She talks about the battle between the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas from Vintage Price: $10.40 Customer Review: I try very hard to read 12 books each year, and there are so many to choose from that narrowing down my annual list is difficult. Elaine Pagels Book "Beyond Belief" was released in 2003, but did not get onto my own book reading to-do list for 3 years, by which time it was surprisingly gone from... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.20 Customer Review: The book is well written, a bit repetitive. The comparison of Buddha and Jesus Christ has some merit. That which he advises the reader to do sounds simple but in fact, it would take 20 years to become a good monk of either faith.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: In this book Elaine Pagels gives a review of the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. This treatment includes early Orthodox thought, primarily from Augustine, as well as Gnostic beliefs about the story from Genesis. The book explains how the fruit of the tree of life became sex and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics from Vintage Price: $10.36 Customer Review: It takes a skilled intellect to present church history in a way that is riveting for the reader and does justice to the material, without becoming so esoteric that one need actually be a scholar to make any sense of it. Elaine Pagels has excelled in presenting thoughtful works about church history... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I read several years ago Pagels' "Beyond Belief," which is very helpful in understanding the so-called Gnostic Gospels. And this time too this book is very interesting; hence five stars. However, Judas of Iscariot remains still being the betrayer! However the problems with these studies based... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		The Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition (PARABOLA Anthology Series) from Morning Light Press Price: $15.30 Customer Review: This offering is one of eight in this excellent Parabola series which offers indepth introductions to the world's great religious traditions. The series takes its place alongside Paulist Press' now-famous Clasics in Western Spirituality series. It might be used alongside of the excellent one-volume... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The Gospel of Thomas: New Perspectives on Jesus' Message from Sounds True Price: $14.96 Customer Review: I enjoyed this cd and it helped very much to understand the book of Thomas.I have listened to it many times well worth buying.I don't want to call it gnostic.I feel it should have been included in the New testment.I feel it is very much like what Jesus would have wanted us to know. Blessing... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism (Whose Religion? Series) from New Press Price: $13.94 Customer Review: Alpert, Rebecca T. "Whose Torah: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism", New Press, 2008. What the Old Testament Really Says Amos Lassen Rebecca Alpert is one of the first women to be ordained a Rabbi and has written wifely. Her new book "Whose Torah" is part of the "Whose Religion"... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Targeting Intelligible Speech: A Phonological Approach to Remediation from Pro-Ed	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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